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John
Shannon
John Shannon was born in 1955 and raised for seven
years in Washington, DC, after which his family moved
to Paris for five years and Tokyo for another five
before settling in New York City in 1971.
He
graduated from the
Lycee Francais de New York
in 1973 and received a BA in History from
Trinity College, in
Hartford, CT. He was a banker in New York for 11
years, working with European clients. Subsequently,
he moved away from financial services and went to the
non-profit sector. Since 1994 he has been Executive
Director & Almoner of
St. George's Society of New York,
one of that city's oldest, continuously operating
membership organizations, founded in 1770. In addition
to organizing regular events for its members, the
Society operates
a
significant charitable program of financial assistance
to needy persons living in the New York area who are
from the United Kingdom of the British Commonwealth.
Additionally Mr. Shannon is President of the
College
of Arms Foundation, Inc., which was
established by the College of Arms in 1984.
Memberships
* General Society of Colonial Wars (former Member of
the Council of the
New York State Society)
* St. Nicholas Society of the City of New York (President)
*
Hereditary Order of Descendants of Colonial Governors
* St. George's Society of New York (Executive
Director;Almoner)
Chivalric
*
Most Venerable Order of the
Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem (Officer)
*
Order of Saints Maurice and
Lazarus (Knight)
Other Notes
Mr.
Shannon serves as Assistant Secretary of the
Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies in New York.
He is a member of The Pilgrims of the United States; the
New York Genealogical and
Biographical Society where he
serves as Chairman of the Committee on Heraldry; and
Saint Thomas Church in New York (where he co-chaired
the Every Member Canvass for two years). Mr. Shannon is also a member of The
Heraldry Society and the Society of Heraldic Arts, two
UK-based organizations that focus on all forms of
English heraldry.
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